GLENN BECK TO REPUBLICANS: The Tea Party Is 'Doubling Down'

Since his departure from Fox News almost a year and half ago, conservative media icon Glenn Beck has been markedly absent from the political landscape.

But in the wake of last week's Republican defeat, the Tea Party leader has message for those in the political Establishment who are already writing his movement's obituary: We're not going anywhere.

In a remarkably sedate address to viewers of his daily online talk show last week, Beck offered a candid apology for wrongly predicted a Romney victory, and urged conservatives not to despair at the loss:

"We're not going to sit and wallow in it, we're not going to point fingers, we're not going to yell at anything," Beck said. "What we're going to do is what Americans always do is pick ourselves up by the boot straps, take stock of what happened and move on."

And later, he added this warning to the party:

"I have to tell you, I think the only one that is in real trouble is the GOP," he said. "It's Karl Rove and the Establishment Republicans that spent half a billion dollars and look where they got. We were making signs, and showing up at rallies and calling our neighbors and friends — which one really wasted their treasure? We didn't waste our time because we connected with people and we know what we are."

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Wow .. you folks sound like freaking cult members. Talk about evangelical with a twist. Unbridled commitment to a one-party system no matter what their ills (and their are many if you have emotional fortitude to admit that reality)

The GOP allowed itself to be taken over by the TeaTalibaners, they allowed the moderate Rethugs to be drowned out and bowled over by the crazies from the Far Reich. The mainstream could have put them down when they started running, but everyone jumped on that crazy train and this is where it has ended up.

Now everyone is pointing their fingers and they seem to have forgotten they have allowed the lowest common, and I do mean COMMON, denominator to win and drive down our National IQ and ability to remain in the 21st century.

Double down Beck, Limbaugh, Slannity and Scarborough, the Nation needs to move forward, without you.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Please take you LIB talking points and practice your rhetoric elsewhere. Do you, or anyone else bashing the tea party know what they stand for? No, you probably don't.

Funny thing. The Tea Party started as a group to advocate for fair competition and an end to crony capitalism. Then THEY were corrupted, in part through generous donations, and morphed into the party of anti-abortion, anti-gray marriage and "christian values" (enter Sarah Palin) with their corporate message changed so simply "deregulation".

I suspect that certain powerful interests on the right weren't so crazy bout the whole " fair competition and an end to crony capitalism" concept.

Mainstream America doesn't like extremist rhetoric or gun-wielding, it makes us nervous. You would have to be mainstream to understand that, so don't worry about it if you don't get it. Your marginal, edge, lunatic fringe will never catch on with us, but we respect your right to spill your drink, and make asses of yourselves. It makes for great entertainment on YouTube. But you will never be anything more than a sack of cats.